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Republican politicians and super PACs have been spreading disinformation in Facebook ads targeting Georgia voters in the critical final days of the Senate runoff campaign. An ad from the Republican […]
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Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube have ramped up their policies against coronavirus misinformation and banned false claims about Covid-19 vaccines. But as distribution of the vaccines begin, online […]
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Two years ago, a handful of Facebook employees began to raise internal alarms about a series of advertisements appearing in their news feeds. Purchased by a then up-and-coming lip-synching app […]
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Twenty-one percent of adults in the U.S. say they’re, quote, “pretty certain” they will not get a COVID-19 vaccine and that more information will not change their minds. That’s according […]
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Google, Facebook, Apple and other technology companies that try to keep covid-19 disinformation and fraud off their own platforms are enabling their spread through online services, tools and code used […]
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Misinformation is proliferating on Facebook about January’s Senate election in Georgia despite the company’s stated plans to keep conspiracy theories and falsehoods around the runoffs at bay, a new report […]
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Facebook on Thursday said it would remove posts that contain claims about Covid-19 vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts, as the social network acts more aggressively to […]